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...first official list of Bernie Madoff victims, numbering some 13,500, has been made public in a Manhattan U.S. Bankruptcy Court filing, and the names range from celebrities to average working stiffs. (See a PDF of the official list of victims...
...known that feeder funds such as Fairfield Greenwich, Ascot Partners and Chais Investments, which are listed in the court document, had thousands of individual investors who placed billions into Madoff's Ponzi. These victims are not part of the list...
...court list was compiled by AlixPartners LLP, of Dallas, and includes investor names and addresses but not the amount invested with Madoff. AlixPartners was hired as claims agent by the trustee, Irving H. Picard, who is overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities...
...Hawaii, where the teachers' union agreed in 2007 to negotiate terms of a new drug-testing program in exchange for higher wages. Now some Hawaii teachers are resisting. (So far, no drug tests have been administered.) The contentious issue of teacher testing has also become the subject of recent court cases in North Carolina and West Virginia, where educators argue that the cost and time taken by random tests would be better spent in the classroom. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...answer is cost. In the West Virginia drug-testing case, which is currently working its way through the federal court system, Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court noted that it costs about $44 a pop to do urine tests, which would cost the West Virginia school district in question about $37,000 a year. (Here's a PDF of Goodwin's preliminary injunction against drug-testing.) That same $37,000 could easily pay for a full-time teacher, meaning that drug-testing would have to be sufficiently valuable to displace an entire teaching position...